President Erdogan’s time-tested method of simultaneously entrenching authoritarian politics and unleashing a wave of nationalism is once again upon us. First, The National Security Council called . . .
Archives for September 2016
What is it the world does not understand about Turkey?
Two months and ten days after the July 15th bloody coup attempt, there is almost no doubt anymore about the seriousness of the attack on Turkey’s constitutional order and its elected . . .
Ignore education at your peril
Turkey's seemingly never-ending political upheavals leave little room for discussion of other equally important issues, such as education. The value of education to Turkish society can never be . . .
Concern over the ferocity of Turkey’s crackdown widens
The Turkish authorities’ unprecedented purge after the failed coup attempt is fast becoming a descent into tyranny. With little or no judicial safeguards in place under the state of emergency, . . .
Turkey’s rewriting of judicial independence
The sight of the heads of supreme justice bodies, judges and prosecutors giving a standing ovation to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his opulent new palace will go down in history as a dark day for . . .